Dusty Allen Oaks

Published 4:29 pm Tuesday, June 24, 2025

April 16, 1962 – June 23, 2025

VIDALIA – Funeral services for Dusty Allen Oaks, 63, of Vidalia, will be held at First Baptist Church in Vidalia on Thursday, June 26, 2025, at 2 p.m. with Bro. Brad Watson officiating. The family will receive friends at the church from 1 p.m. until the service time at 2 p.m. Interment will follow at Greenlawn Memorial Park, under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home.

Dusty was born on Monday, April 16, 1962, in Crawfordsville, IN to his parents, Eddie Conkright and Vivian Capps, and passed away on Monday, June 23, 2025, at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge. He was adopted by his grandparents, Elmer and Goldie Oaks. He graduated from Southmont Senior High School (Class of 1982). Dusty had various jobs over his lifetime. In 2005, he married D’Shay Rushing. Over the years of his adult life, he enjoyed decorating the yard for Christmas and attending different car shows around Louisiana and Mississippi. Also, he was instrumental in starting and planning the Cruising for a Cure Relay for Life Open Car Show every year.

He is reunited with his grandparents, parents, grandson, Maverick, and father-in-law, Roy Rushing.

Those left to cherish Dusty’s memories are his wife; daughters, Lisa, Michelle, and Nikki all of Crawfordsville, IN; fur baby, Buttons; his sisters, Dixie Hegadore and her husband, Danny of Calabash, NC, Barbie Roche and her husband, Shane, Margaret Griggs and her husband, Jeff, Kimberly Conkright, Stephanie Tharp and her husband, Shawn, and Tammy Conkright all of Crawfordsville, IN; brother, Mark Shupe and his wife, Judy of Brownsburg, IN; mother-in-law, Gail Young Rushing of Vidalia; thirteen grandchildren plus a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Those honoring Dusty as pallbearers will be David Moss, Daniel Boyd, Russ Brasher, Daniel Davis, Tim Welch, Jeff Ames, Matthew Probst, and Whest Shirley.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the American Cancer Society or the Building Fund at First Baptist Church, Vidalia.

To leave an online condolence for the family, please visit www.youngsfh.com.